Henriette also lived in the horror monastery for ten years. “Before bed I looked in the attic staircase in the deep hole. I often thought: would I jump?”

“One day my brother Jef got an epilepsy attack. He lay there, convulsively on the floor. And instead of helping him, they kicked his head.” When 86-year-old Henriette Thevissen saw the documentary series ‘De Nonen’ in VTM Nieuws on Thursday, her own memories of the Sint-Vincentius monastery in Zelem immediately came up again. She too now dares to share her story as a victim. For ten years she lived there as a child under a shock of shocks. “Oh Lord, the people must know how we have abandoned there.”

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